Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have food less elaborate but more nourishing. "The faculties," he says, "should endeavor to reduce the number of courses given and in many cases to condense the material now presented. The tremendous subdivision of the fields of learning which has occurred in the past thirty-five years will certainly shock the academic historian a century from now. The increase in the number of special courses of instruction has by no means been solely in the faculty of arts and sciences; the professional schools have shown the same tendency. How to stop this movement of expansion, how to eliminate and condense...
This conveys the impression that it is possible to become a teacher of physical education without much study. Such a statement would have been true 30 years ago but not in any reputable school today. The boy in question would be in for a shock as far as Springfield College is concerned (if admitted at all) to find that, in the four years, he will have to get a regular college course besides his professional subjects. Springfield College does not recruit freaks; nor does it accept muscles as a substitute for brains. Applicants are tested as to aptitudes and then...
Listeners who had formed their impression of Communism from the Hearst Press must have received a distinct shock when small, sandy-haired Comrade Browder, son of a Kansas schoolteacher and longtime certified public accountant, began to speak in the tone of a mild, ingratiating Midwestern college professor. As he went on, alert listeners realized that most of his sentences could have been lifted almost verbatim from the speeches of the nation's most famed and respectable public characters. Samples...
Presenting motion pictures taken in the NACA's new "superspeed" wind tunnel at Langley Field, Va., where airflow up to 750 m.p.h.* is possible, Dr. Lewis proved that at 575 m.p.h. the smooth flow of air over the wing top suddenly breaks away in a feathery "shock wave" which completely nullifies lifting power. Cause is an area of excessively compressed air, built up by the airfoil's passage. Same phenomenon occurs at the tips of propellers. Only chance for speed greater than 575 m.p.h. is a mechanism for changing wing and propeller shape when the plane reaches...
...clumsy little shock-haired man stood in the pit of a Vienna theatre, conducting an opera as if by might & main he could make its success. At 35, with deafness already upon him, Ludwig van Beethoven was presenting his Fidelia. Circumstances could scarcely have been worse. The week before, Napoleon had taken the city with the result that Austria's music patrons had withdrawn to the country. Temperature in the theatre was below freezing. Apathetic music critics found the score abounding in repetitions while the orchestra kept up a perpetual din. After three performances Beethoven's one & only...